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Andrew West 魏安

babelstone.co.uk

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Hand-written Japanese phonetic misreading of the Cantonese phrase 呢的係乜野 as ニーチーシーネャヤ (English 喝衣士撻 = What is that?) in 《英語集全》 = "The Chinese and English instructor" (Canton, 1862)

2023-12-05T18:38:04.649Z